This Research Programme is curerntly funded by the ESRC (Project Number R000236776Social exclusion or flexible adaptation coal districts in a period of economic transformation) and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (Project Number 150233 – Rural Areas Learning from the Coalfields? Economic Regeneration, Social Exclusion and Integration) 1999 Cardiff University is the public name of the University ...

The participants from State include: George Christy, Thomas Godard, Harold Vaughn, Seniors;; Walter Parmer '51. Representing State in the Congressional Discussion will be George Christy, Thomas Goddard a n d Harold Vaughn, Seniors, and Paul LeBrun, Walter Farmer and Edwin Kurlander, Juniors. Miss Elnora M. Drafahl, Instructor in English, will act as one of the judges. Two members of the group, ...

This paper describes the LIG participation to the MediaEval 2013 Affect Task on violent scenes detection in Hollywood movies. We submitted four runs at the shot level for each subtasks: objective violent scenes detection and subjective violent scenes detection. Our four runs are: hierarchical fusion of descriptors and classifier combinations, the same with joint audio-visual words, and the same...

Prior to the 1980s, numerous charges of discrimination were noteworthy among women in Hollywood. In those years, women were in uncertain situations, so they seemed aimless and vulnerable. In the period that this article focuses on, the female characters are or have become intelligent and therefore open-minded and potentially independent. Although, they are still vulnerable and unsure of themsel...

This paper introduces a benchmark evaluation targeting the detection of violent scenes in Hollywood movies. The evaluation was implemented in 2011 and 2012 as an affect task in the framework of the international MediaEval benchmark initiative. We report on these two years of evaluation, providing a detailed description of the dataset created, describing the state-of-the-art by studying the resu...

In the past, copyright law was of interest only to legal scholars and Hollywood film types. Today, however, copyright law is on the front page of local newspapers, argued about in conversations at the water cooler, and discussed by teenagers looking to find free music on the Web. Intellectual property intimidates those who don't understand the underlying principles or those that don't speak the...